News from November 2019

By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is joining Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) for a video series that began this week aimed at providing the facts on Speaker Pelosi’s partisan plan for fewer cures.

By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, Congressman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON - The number of passengers expected to fly this Thanksgiving holiday is predicted to be record-breaking with more than 26.8 million passengers and crew members traveling through security screening checkpoints nationwide from Nov. 22 through Dec. 2. TSA expects to screen 4% more passengers this holiday travel season than last year.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Catherine Elizabeth Pugh, age 69, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to the federal charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and two counts of tax evasion. U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow has scheduled sentencing for Feb. 27, 2020, at 10:00 a.m.

By Commerce Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), Subcommittee Ranking Member Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA - Two former residents of Los Angeles, California, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Gardena man was found guilty by a jury today of federal criminal charges that he attempted to smuggle live corals that are protected by an international treaty known as the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 37-year-old Corpus Christi resident who was involved in a shooting at a local convenience store has been sentenced following his conviction of unlawful ammunition possession, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), Subcommittee Ranking Member Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Christopher Aaron Roddenberry, 30, of Milton, Florida, was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in federal court this morning for his participation in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Juan Jarmon, 32, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to thirty years’ imprisonment and six years’ supervised release by United States District Judge Paul S. Diamond for crimes committed while he was the leader of a violent drug trafficking group operating out of the Norman Blumberg Apartments public housing facility in North Philadelphia.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STANISLAV VITALIYEVICH LISOV, a/k/a “Black," a/k/a “Blackf" (“LISOV"), was sentenced to 48 months in prison today for conspiring to deploy and use a type of malicious software known as NeverQuest to infect...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Twenty defendants have been indicted on charges relating to the distribution of cocaine and crack cocaine in the Burlington County, New Jersey, area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Chuck Cohen and Cathy Danyluk recognized for their exemplary service.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelsea man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Boston for the September 2019 robbery of a branch of the TD Bank in Chelsea.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Christopher Johnson, age 31, previously residing in Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty before Chief United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced the launch of the Plastics Innovation Challenge, a comprehensive U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program to accelerate innovations in energy-efficient plastics recycling technologies. Plastics are used in thousands of products essential to modern life, but plastic waste is also a growing global challenge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Stephen C. Laycock Named Executive Assistant Director of the Intelligence Branch.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 47-year-old Beeville man charged with destruction of U.S. government property and possession of a stolen firearm has admitted his guilt, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement today that it is rolling back key portions of the Risk Management Plan updates, also known as the Chemical Disaster Rule...